Welcome to the Norfolk Island Museum's blog. We are lucky to be located in the most beautiful part of a stunning island in the South Pacific. We are a little island, but our history and stories are great - from Polynesian and convict settlements to the home of the Bounty mutineers. Hopefully you'll enjoy our stories.

Sunday, March 6, 2016

Note:
This post continues from earlier Building
a Lighter for Norfolk Island's cargo

Work
continues with John Christian Bailey and Dean Burrell of JCB Cabinets hammering in the ribs. There are 43
ribs, spaced 200 mm apart. The ribs are fastened firmly to the hull using
copper rivets and roves. A rove punch is made of heavy steel and is an
essential tool for neat copper nail and rove work. Traditional copper cut nails
used with matching copper roves to form a copper rivet. These nails are
extremely robust, easy to drive and when the wood fibres become damp and swell,
will never work loose.

Regular posts
on the building of the lighter will be uploaded to this blog.